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Poster:	Tidewater four ten O nine	Date:	May 22, 2009 12:38:43pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Greatest Dead moment of all time?

Had most of this show (inc. UJB) on a green vinyl TMQ (Trade Mark of Quality - read Unquality for Quality) bootleg when I was a kid and this show has been a favourite of mine ever since - after Live/Dead, this was my second Dead album. Great CCS->IKYR, great Sugar (Wah Wah) Magnolia and everything about it was/is just so electric/energetic - the Dead in 'eager to please' mode.

And when Jerry picks out the melody of UJB as a practice before they start, well I just go weak at the knees.

Good call.

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Poster:	Styrofoam Cueball	Date:	May 22, 2009 12:47:35pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Greatest Dead moment of all time?

My 10/4/70 was on Trademark Of Quality YELLOW vinyl (called "Dreadful Great"). Their logo was a lil pig. A show that, now that I have it in it's entirety, I re-visit often.

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Poster:	grendelschoice	Date:	May 22, 2009 01:41:20pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Greatest Dead moment of all time?

That's a real open-ender of a question. Just about impossible, but i'd at least have to divide it into stuff I witnessed live and stuff I've heard on tape,...

Ultimate Dead moment(s) for me when I was there would have to be two: the ST STEPHEN breakout at MSG in 1983, for the sheer crowd madness of it; and strictly musically speaking it would be the sublime transition (I still say the best they ever did) of SUGAR MAG>SCARLET from the Alpine show I was at in July 1989.

and for wish-I-was-there-but-wasn't, I gotta go with Jerry's final solo w/the band in tow from EYES at DeKalb, Ill. 10/29/77....that rush of brilliance is to me what the Dead were really about when at their finest.